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Purdue Research Foundation: Spotlight on Inari Agriculture
Inari is the SEEDesign™ company, combining artificial intelligence-powered predictive design and multiplex gene editing to unlock the full potential of seed. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company opened its second U.S. location in November 2018 at the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette, where it has offices, greenhouse space and a farm. It also has…
Read MoreNYT: Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life
The same technology that allows medical researchers to tinker with human cells is letting agricultural scientists alter crop genes. When the first wave of CRISPR studies came out, Catherine Feuillet, an expert on wheat, who was then at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, immediately saw its potential for her own work… At Inari…
Read MoreGenetic Engineering News: Can CRISPR Feed the World?
Now in its second decade, CRISPR genome editing technology is being used to revolutionize agriculture—just in time to help us adapt to climate change. A decade has passed since the landmark paper by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier describing their Nobel Prize–winning research appeared in Science. The research, of course, was about the “genetic scissors” known…
Read MoreFast Company: 3 Steps to Identify the Most Impactful Companies to Invest In
Every year brings another wave of challenging climate news, but 2022 seems to be off to a particularly rocky start. From the IPCC Climate Reports to the crisis in Ukraine to the federal government’s struggles to pass any serious climate legislation, the news is filled with warning signs. Compounding these challenges is growing disillusionment with…
Read MoreAgFunder News: Charting the Course to a Resilient Food System with Dynamic System Modeling
Earth Day 2022’s theme — ‘invest in our planet’ — stands as a stark reminder that our economic security is entirely dependent on the health of our natural world. Earth Day demands that we ask: “What is the real bottom line?” Rarely in life are we presented with clarity. Climate change is clear. It is…
Read MoreExpansion Into Wheat Continues a Personal Journey
By Catherine FeuilletChief Scientific Officer – This week marked yet another exciting development in Inari’s progress toward helping to transform the global food system by deploying our SEEDesign™ technology platform in major crops, as we announced a key partnership with leading Australian cereal seed company InterGrain. But this news is also particularly inspiring to me on a…
Read MoreInterGrain and Inari Launch Collaboration to Deliver Step-Change in Wheat Yield Potential
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 22, 2022 — Inari, the SEEDesign™ company, and InterGrain, a leading cereal breeding company in Australia, today announced a strategic collaboration to dramatically improve the yield potential of wheat, enhancing the crop’s long-term viability in the face of an increasingly variable climate. The partnership brings together InterGrain’s well-adapted Australian wheat genetics with Inari’s…
Read MoreForbes: Patents Aim to Boost Corn and Soy Performance
Food is so complicated – making it, growing it, choosing what to eat of it. It’s tempting to say this is relatively recent, but if you could travel back in time to talk to the farmers who started selectively breeding corn from teosinte, they’d probably tell you figuring that out was no walk in the park. From a…
Read MoreInari to Bring Growers Proprietary GM Traits in Tandem with Novel Gene Edits
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9, 2022 — Globally, growers are impacted by the dual challenges of growing more food while making the best use of limited resources. New solutions are required if the needs of the people and the planet are to be met. Inari, the SEEDesign™ company, aims to address these challenges using multiplex gene editing with goals…
Read MoreHow Diversity is Driving Breakthrough Technology
Our mission at Inari – to help build a sustainable food system – is ambitious. But, we don’t lack confidence in our ability to complete it because as an organization, we’re relying on one of nature’s oldest and most effective strategies: diversity. Nature doesn’t believe in doing things a single way. Neither do we. By…
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